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My studies show that you must have a community of adult children who throw a tantrum when they encounter something they don't like, combined with a group of exhausted parent modera…

I'm glad to hear that the system indeed at least works equally badly for "both sides". It wasn't clear to me at all. I refuse your attempt at categorizing me. This isn't a battle. …

Again, the moderation does not deny being involved. I will concede though, I technically can't tell . However, if "a few flags" really can push an article from the front page down …

It wasn't the user flagging that caused this, it happened from one moment to another: http://hnrankings.info/17399895/ The moderators do not deny being responsible for it.

Fair enough, I don't understand the technical details. The posts were hidden from the frontpage, by moderators, through whatever mechanism. Why? Not as technical question, but why …

You have entirely sidestepped the question: Why did you flag the original post? It "got attention", but so do a lot of front page articles and they don't get flagged. > What argume…

Wait, so it got the "mild penalty" (which resulted in its immediate disappearance from the frontpage) because it was a follow-up ? The post to which it was a follow-up also got fla…

To be fair, in many rural places you don't want to fall out of the norm on any spectrum and there's no opportunity for practically anything. That's why you move out .

Yes it has.

There's actually not that many opportunities for internships on C/C++ compilers. I mean, maybe the GCC people will take you, but... yeah.

I'm disappointed with their race-based criteria, in my perception Arabs/Middle-Easterners ("looks like a Muslim") rank far higher on the oppression scale than Hispanics.

> But how common is it actually to pretend to be a gender you are not for something like this? Who says it's a problem? It's not up to anyone else to judge my motivation for changi…

Just put your preferred pronoun on your twitter page, and as long as it's not male and the gender you were assigned at birth, you should be good to go. As soon as that internship i…

I was making a general point, but even then you shouldn't need to have a "verifiable track record" just to say something mildly controversial without getting fired.

That some person calls for the firing isn't the problem, but it's the faculties following through with it. It's the infantilized "student customer" along with a long-standing infil…

Kids don't always do what they're told, but they're inclined to believe what they're told. Acting out on a false belief nevertheless can be done willingly. Similarly, the parent te…

That's... simply untrue. First of all, people kill themselves for all kinds of reasons, all the time. Secondly, people are willing to sacrifice their lives for a perceived greater …

It can easily be "worth it" if by sacrificing half a million children you get to save half a million and one child . Despite what you might want to believe, Mrs. Albright is neithe…

I'm not sure I get your point. When I research human sacrifice, I must tacitly condemn it, because that's the civilized thing to do? Human sacrifice is really just obsolete technol…

You presumably quote that as if there was a contradiction there, but there isn't. We have fairly recent cases of children willingly blowing themselves up in Syria. All it really ta…

Do you, really ? When do you ever search for just "string"? You're going to add some context, like "split string C++". Now maybe you'll say Google should know you're programming in…

The headline is of course wrong, they didn't remove it fully, they removed it from one paragraph. More interestingly, they removed another sentence from that paragraph: "[...] prov…

I fully it expect it to allow it, but you can't just pick one line out of the whole text and be done. For instance, what's the definition of processing? How does it cross-reference…

> Did you actually look into the GDPR before jumping to these conclusions about the effects on your business? The fact that I have to look into the GDPR already proves my conclusio…

It's not inconvenient, it's costing me money . I don't want your data, I need to collect it and store it to comply with other laws, now I need to verify that the particular way I c…